Trotsky, Barbusse, and Sartre greeted Voyage au bout de la nuit (1932) with great symphathy, yet at the same time the monarchist Leon Daudet attached himself to Celine as one of his greatest and most fervent admirers.

In their progressive movement toward the representation of cowardice's political, psychological, and social meanings, the discursive strategies in Voyage au bout de la nuit draw the reading experience into convergence with an unfolding of the secret meaning of selfdom encrypted within the figures of cowardice.

One of the most neglected works of Louis-Ferdinand Celine is his first published one, La Vie et 1 'aeuvre de Philippe-Ignace Semmelweis, which first appeared in 1924 at a time when Celine was still Louis-Ferdinand Destouches, eight years before Voyage au bout de la nuit, the novel that was to make him famous.

Indeed, over 6o percent of his entries receive only one star or no star, while a mere six novels earn his maximum rating of five stars (Du cote de chez Swann, Les Faux-Monnayeurs, Voyage au bout de la nuit, La Condition humaine, La Nausee, and a novel distinguished by having "l'incipit [.

However, Hewitt's acute sense of Celine the artificer allows him to swerve past the clutches of reductive readings of Voyage au bout de la nuit such as the hypernaturalist, the moralist and the autobiographical (p.

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